Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo.
This defeat ended Napoleon’s rule as Emperor of the French.
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Louisiana enacted a law requiring all state classrooms to display the Ten Commandments.
The western movie 'The Wild Bunch' was released.
The world's first stealth-oriented aircraft, the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, took its first flight.
A large landslide triggered a Tsunami in Nuugaatsiaq, Greenland, damaging several villages.
NASA launched the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, the first American lunar mission in ten years.
